Accidental interview with a young man, a well-educated English speaker, in front of the Khmelnytskyi Town Hall:
- Sorry, is this monument in front of your town hall dedicated to Bohdan Khmelnytsky?
- No, it isn't and frankly speaking, I'm feeling asahamed of such a monstrosity in our hometown.
- By the way, do you feel comfortable with the name of your hometown?
- Yes, of course, from our point of view Bohdan Khmelnytsky was a Ukrainian hero?
- It doesn't matter, that the renaming was effected by the Soviets, why don't you re-rename the town?
- The focus was on Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Ukrainian fight against the Polish dominance.
- Rgardless of the atrocities committed by Bohdan Khmelnytsky's rebels against Poles and Jews?
- I understand your point, but for us he was still a fighter for liberation.
- So, the killing of Poles and Jews was a kind of "collateral damage"?
- Yes, you might say that.
Interested? Read more at my report on my 5. stage of my ongoing motorcycle ride:
http://hauster.blogspot.de/2015/06/bohdan-khmelnytsky-has-never-been-in.html
Enjoy Khmelnytskyi, in all but the name?!
Edgar Hauster <iPad>
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